This paper considers videogames as meaningful media in interactive and everyday contexts. In order to show our theoretical and methodological perspective for approaching media as practice, we analyze how a commercial video game, Tomb Raider: Cronicles, could be present in several scenarios. The research focuses on how to understand media in context by combining two modes of thought: the narrati...

The aim of this longitudinal study was to explore 10 patients’ experiences of the meaning they attribute to the substance of hope and the process of hoping during the first 3 to 4 years following a spinal cord injury. This qualitative study is a synthesis of three empirical studies of hope and the overall aim was to deepen the understanding of the phenomenon of hope, based on the text represent...

ions for Knowledge Organization of Relational Descriptions Isabelle Bournaud, Mélanie Courtine, Jean-Daniel Zucker 1 LRI, Université Paris-Sud, Av. du Général de Gaulle, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France [email protected] 2 LIP6 – Pole IA, Université Paris VI, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex, France {Melanie.Courtine, Jean-Daniel.Zucker}@lip6.fr Abstract. The goal of conceptual clustering is ...

Representing data that changes over time in conceptual data models is required by various application domains, and requires a language that is expressive enough to fully capture the operational semantics of the time-varying information. Temporal modelling languages typically focus on representing and reasoning over temporal classes and relationships, but have scant support for temporal attribut...

The "neighborhood effects" literature, as currently constructed in epidemiology, would benefit from critical attention to the following four issues: 1) use of appropriate measurement tools and methods for neighborhood environments; 2) theoretical or conceptual guidance as to the aspects of residential environments most salient to human health (both within and across health endpoints); 3) the sc...

Since big data sets are structurally complex, high-dimensional, and their attributes exhibit some redundant irrelevant information, the selection, evaluation, combination of those large-scale pose huge challenges to traditional methods. Fuzzy rough have emerged as a powerful vehicle deal with uncertain fuzzy in problems that involve very large number variables be analyzed short time. In order f...

A number of approaches have been proposed to determine the weights for multiple attribute decision making. However, resultant are usually assumed be fixed, making it lack tolerance accommodate variation if patterns subsequent data subject change. This article proposes a method facilitate adjustment weights, which accommodates relevant characteristics. model is first constructed that able expres...

Most of data in a multi attribute decision making (MADM) problem are unstable and changeable, and thus sensitivity analysis can effectively contribute to making proper decisions. Here, we offer a new method for sensitivity analysis of multi-attribute decision making problems so that by changing one element of decision making matrix, we can determine changes in the results of a decision making p...

How universal is human conceptual structure? The way concepts are organized in the human brain may reflect distinct features of cultural, historical, and environmental background in addition to properties universal to human cognition. Semantics, or meaning expressed through language, provides indirect access to the underlying conceptual structure, but meaning is notoriously difficult to measure...